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A double agent who betrayed American plans to test Soviet air defences during
the Cold War says that he did it to prevent an accidental nuclear war.

Jeffrey Carney, a surveillance specialist with the US Air Force, became a spy
for East Germany after defecting in 1983 and being sent back to his job in
West Berlin to betray his colleagues.

Carney, 49, who served 11 years in a US military prison for espionage, seeks
to justify passing information to his handlers in the Stasi, the East German
secret police, in a book published this month. On his website, Carney,